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Hi guys,
Trying to figure out why Google is displaying a wrong page title for top navigation help output.
Individual page titles for topic pages under the 'content' folder are displayed correctly, but there seems to be an issue with the way Google indexes the output file.
See for example:
https ...

Thanks Dave. Helpful info indeed!

Links will change because of the frame-less structure, e.g. from ...help/file.htm#file.htm to help/Content/file.htm
We did not experience any issues since we rolled back. The fear is that breaking thousands of links will damage our ranking with Google and therefore SEO will be affected as well.

Hi all,
Has anyone encountered SEO issues making the transition to the new iframe-less, top-nav, HTML5 output?
Our main fear from making the move is the change in the URLs that will considerably effect our SEO.
I actually published the new version of the help but was then ordered to roll back ...

Don't rebuild as well when Publish is selected (this one has been registered as a bug).

That's a huge one. More so, when I hit "Publish" I get a rebuild of the target, but no publish to the selected destination. So now I just copy the files manually.

Interesting.
My project is also relatively large. Output was not compiled correctly so can't open via Explorer. Changing the search chunk didn't do the trick.
Odd thing is that this issue already surfaced last week, and then suddenly disappeared into thin air and output was compiled correctly ...

Hi guys,
Has anyone encountered repeated crashes of the Flare compiler when building HTML5 output? The Build log does not specify a specific error or warning...
Using Flare 11, Windows 7.
Cheers,
Daniel

Experiencing the same issue as well. Checking out and checking in takes for ever. Using SVN 1.7 and Flare 10.1.

I'm also experiencing a serious slowdown in my check-ins and check-outs using Flare 10.1 and SVN 1.7. While projects are imported from SVN more quickly in 10.1 than 10.0 or 10.0.1, Flare is still painful to use with subversion. Saving a single change in a file can take over 1 min. Could there be an ...

Hi all,
I've been using Google Analytics for some time now for tracking usage patterns of our WebHelp.
I'm getting some great results, but I still can't seem to find a way to track search queries performed within the Help (using Flare's built-in search box).
Google requires defining a query ...

An old post - still no solution to this problem?

Thanks Dave. Success!

Thanks. Yes, HTML5.
I suppose I could do that. Does the breadcrumbs DIV include the "Open topic with navigation" link as well?
I also managed to cover the link by absolute positioning of an image over it. Weird that there is no way to style/customize this link.

Hi guys!
I've created a welcome page for our Help system that uses a separate stylesheet linked to a designated masterpage.
The skin I use has the "Show navigation at top of the topic" selected, which is fine since I'd like users that hit individual topics located in the project's "Content" folder ...

Thank you Dave and Margaret! I ended up creating an additional master page, and linking it with a different stylesheet. Using the File List view was a convenient way to disassociate all the topics from the original/main stylesheet. BTW, found this page http://www.flareforhelp.com/2011/11/multiple ...

I understand.
I have around 600 help pages all associated with one main stylesheet. So after setting the target/project stylesheet to default, and linking the one welcome topic to a different stylesheet, I'd have to somehow link the 600 pages to the main stylesheet, correct? Is there any easy way to ...

Hi there!
I'm using a Mater Page associated with a specific stylesheet for all the topics in the help, but want to associate an entirely different stylesheet to the help's welcome topic.
When I click the Stylesheet Links button in the Home tab, I get a message saying "Local topic style are disabled ...

Hi all,
Google has indexed our help pages that are located in the output's Content folder.
See for example:
http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-6/content/jobs_component.htm
There are two issues that have surfaced as a result:
1) Users reaching the page via Google don't get the Help frame ...

Now, why didn't I think of this? Thanks Lisa - it worked!!!

Folders with topics inside not tagged - check
Condition tags set to exclude and include correctly - check
Target pointing to correct TOC - check
Using Flare 8

Thanks! Just tried your tip - no tags in the target, except exclude tags --> Same result

Hi all,
Gone through this over and over, and can't seem to get this working correctly.
Using Flare 8, with two main project outputs: HTML 5, HTML 5 for QA. The QA target is meant as a draft for new features, experimental stuff, etc.
Tagged a whole new TOC book from the TOC topic properties, then ...

Stephanie hi,
I think you'll find these posts useful:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 13&t=14785
Daniel

Check out:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/2012 ... omment-677
Works like a charm!

Hi all,
I have been trying, without much success, to format code inserted into Flare 8 using Google Prettify, so that the code appears with indents and colors as in the source.
There is a detailed tutorial at: http://www.jennywatson.net/2012/02/15/coloring-code-in-flare-with-prettify/ . Has anyone ...